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Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H7887

שִׁילֹה

Shilohshee-lo'

Shiloh

32 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Shîylôh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7887is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 24
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7887

Shiloh, a place in Palestine

The King James renders it: Shiloh.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Shiloh is rendered "Shiloh". It stands 32 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.

  • Ten of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 18:1Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.

The first use

Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,

Joshua 18:1שִׁלֹ֔ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Ten of the word's thirty-two uses are in 1 Samuel.

The other 33 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Shiloh12
  • at Shiloh7
  • in Shiloh7
  • from Shiloh3
  • like Shiloh2
  • to Shiloh1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

שִׁירshirto singUses86
שִׁיתshithto set: makeUses83
שִׁירshirsongUses59
שִׁילוֹנִיShiloniShiloniteUses6
שִׁיתshithgarmentUses2
שִׁיחָהshichahpitUses2
שִׁיבָהshibahcaptivityUses1
שִׁיבָהshibahsojournUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 32, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

24 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • שִׁלֹ֔ה5
  • בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃2
  • בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃ פ2
  • בְּשִׁל֖וֹ2
  • שִׁל֑וֹ2
  • בְּשִׁיל֔וֹ1
  • בְשִׁלֹ֖ה1
  • בְשִׁלֹ֑ה1
  • בְּשִׁלֹ֖ה1
  • בְּשִׁלֹה֙1
  • בְּשִׁלֹ֗ה1
  • בְּשִׁלֹ֑ה1

and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + proper noun (a name)20HR/Npl
  • proper noun (a name)12HNpl

Joshua

eight uses
  • Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,

    Joshua 18:1

    • שִׁלֹ֔הshilohproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh
  • As the men got up to go out, Joshua commanded them to map out the land, saying, “Go and survey the land, map it out, and return to me. Then I will cast lots for you here in Shiloh in the presence of the LORD.”

    Joshua 18:8

    • בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃beshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Shiloh
  • So the men departed and went throughout the land, mapping it city by city into seven portions. Then they returned with the document to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.

    Joshua 18:9

    • שִׁלֹֽה׃shilohproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh
  • And Joshua cast lots for them in the presence of the LORD at Shiloh, where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.

    Joshua 18:10

    • בְּשִׁלֹ֖הbeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Shiloh
  • These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.

    Joshua 19:51

    • בְּשִׁלֹה֙beshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shiloh
  • at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”

    Joshua 21:2

    • בְּשִׁלֹ֗הbeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shiloh
  • So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.

    Joshua 22:9

    • מִשִּׁלֹ֖הmishilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Shiloh
  • And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.

    Joshua 22:12

    • שִׁלֹ֔הshilohproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh

Judges

five uses
  • So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.

    Judges 18:31

    • בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃ פbeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shiloh
  • So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

    Judges 21:12

    • שִׁלֹ֔הshilohproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh
  • “But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

    Judges 21:19

    • בְּשִׁל֜וֹbeshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Shiloh
  • and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

    Judges 21:21

    • שִׁילוֹ֮shiloproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh
    • שִׁיל֑וֹshiloproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh

1 Samuel

ten uses
  • Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.

    1 Samuel 1:3

    • בְּשִׁלֹ֑הbeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shiloh
  • So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.

    1 Samuel 1:9

    • בְשִׁלֹ֖הveshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Shiloh
  • Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.

    1 Samuel 1:24

    • שִׁל֑וֹshiloproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh
  • and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.

    1 Samuel 2:14

    • בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃beshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shiloh
  • And the LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, because there He revealed Himself to Samuel by His word.

    1 Samuel 3:21

    • בְשִׁלֹ֑הveshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shiloh
    • בְּשִׁל֖וֹbeshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Shiloh
  • When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”

    1 Samuel 4:3

    • מִשִּׁלֹ֗הmishilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Shiloh
  • So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

    1 Samuel 4:4

    • שִׁלֹ֔הshilohproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh
  • That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line all the way to Shiloh, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

    1 Samuel 4:12

    • שִׁלֹ֖הshilohproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh
  • including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.

    1 Samuel 14:3

    • בְּשִׁל֖וֹbeshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Shiloh

1 Kings

three uses
  • So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.

    1 Kings 2:27

    • בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃ פbeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Shiloh
  • and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.

    1 Kings 14:2

    • שִׁלֹ֗הshilohproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh
  • Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

    1 Kings 14:4

    • שִׁלֹ֔הshilohproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh

Psalms

one use
  • He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

    Psalms 78:60

    • שִׁל֑וֹshiloproper noun (a name)tagged: Shiloh

Jeremiah

five uses
  • But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

    Jeremiah 7:12

    • בְּשִׁיל֔וֹbeshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Shiloh
  • therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.

    Jeremiah 7:14

    • לְשִׁלֽוֹ׃leshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Shiloh
  • then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”

    Jeremiah 26:6

    • כְּשִׁלֹ֑הkeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Shiloh
  • How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

    Jeremiah 26:9

    • כְּשִׁלוֹ֙keshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Shiloh
  • eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.

    Jeremiah 41:5

    • מִשִּׁל֤וֹmishilopreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Shiloh

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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